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Rating: 4/5Works, but one DOA?

Pros: Using five 4TB's inside Synology DS1513+ in RAID 6 for business use. My performance has been good so far. After over 2333 hours of usage, still no errors reported through extended SMART tests.

Tested: Two USB and one ethernet simultaneous file reads and writes. The NAS is performing at over 200 MB/s for both read and write.

Cons: Received one DOA. Also, we had to pay to ship the drive to WD. However, it was replaced, which took about 10 days time. Honestly, this is the first DOA I've ever received (and I've been ordering drives for many years). All drives were packed together, so it have been something with that particular drive.

Other Thoughts: Honestly, compare prices. For a NAS, the Red's had been good for us and lasted years without problems. We chose this drive for the comparable pricing, long warranty, and the construction/vibration technology for our site.

Rating: 3/5Enterprise only if you can't divide by 10

Cons: Specifications state 10 in 10^15 URE. That's 1 in 10^14, so it's really a consumer-level drive, not an enterprise drive, which are recognizable with UREs of 1 in 10^15 or better. Are they targetting the math illiterate?

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11/13/2014 5:50:08 PM

Tech Level: 5/5

Ownership: 5/5

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Rating: 5/5great drives

Pros: These drives have proven extremely reliable. I bought 5 at once. Not one DOA. The run a little warmer than 1TB RE drives I upgraded from, but just a couple degrees. I have 4 in raid5 setup. I always keep an extra drive as a cold spare. I had one drive die a few months ago and I was glad I had the spare handy. My replacement was at my door step in about 10 days. This is why I buy enterprise drives. WD seems to handle the warranties much quicker.

Cons: Price

Other Thoughts: Even with a cold spare on hand running drives of this capacity in raid5 is risky business. It took 19 hours to rebuild the array and luckily no other drive failed.

Rating: 5/5Hard Drive is Great, Newegg Isn't!

Other Thoughts: A great hard drive but I will buy all my electronics from other than Newegg in the future. Why? Because they won't advocate for their customers (I've been a regular for many years) if the manufacturer refuses to honor the manufacturer warranty. Clearly Newegg has some clout with their suppliers, but they won't intervene. So I'm left with a (different product, not this drive) $46 piece of worthless equipment because neither the manufacturer nor Newegg will help. Newegg even wrongly claims there's no manufacturer's warranty (I have the card to prove there IS). I highly recommend buying this drive ELSEWHERE!

Rating: 5/5Great

Other Thoughts: Seems that the shipping method Newegg uses with smaller numbers of drives is not working, my last order of 2 WD Red drives had 1 DOA, then the replacement was also DOA, and finally the third time got a second working one. However when I ordered 6 of these together a completely different method of packing was used and all 6 worked perfectly off the bat.

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